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KINDNESS
KINDNESS
World, You Need A Change Of Mind
Female Energy / Polydor
World, You Need A Change Of Mind is the first full-length offering from Adam Bainbridge, aka Kindness, a London-based photographer-turned-musician.
First off, World, You Need A Change Of Mind features two of the strangest covers ever; both in terms of song choice and the way they are represented. Bainbridge’s cover of The Replacements’ Swingin’ Party is a synthed-up version that never seems to peak, and his cover of Anita Dobson’s Anyone Can Fall In Love is a disturbing reggae-slow-dub mash-up that is almost as unbearable as the original.
Gee Wiz really is nothing to get excited about, particularly the weird segment mid-song that sounds like someone is trying really hard to finger pick.
Gee Up, however, is a little more funkalicious - though it seems to end just as the music builds up into something positive. Cyan is definitely the most likeable track, with some real funky production and a funky beat to boot. Bombastic should be outrageous, but it isn’t; frankly it’s plain weird – wait until halfway through when a creepy deep voice pops in to list the names of famous people for no apparent reason.
Overall, this is a frustratingly bland record of jazz-junk with nothing of real substance to offer. Unless you’re hipster enough to ‘understand things, man’ before everyone else does, do yourself a kindness and avoid this one.
_CHLOE PAPAS
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